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Ebony chopping board: cutting the groove | Guitar building by hand

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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Ebony chopping board: cutting the groove. March 1, 2015. Before starting the groove I used a marking gauge to traced out the edge of the channel and marked the outside corners by tracing around a coin:. The marked out the channel on the board. I used a carving gouge to cut out most of the channel:. Using the scraper to smooth out the channel. Next I rounded off the edges of the board slightly it was done! March 1, 2015.

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Keepsake box: the hinges | Guitar building by hand

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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Keepsake box: the hinges. January 18, 2015. A whole blog post about hinges? I eventually got them from had a ‘cheap’ and ‘expensive’ variety. I settled for the more expensive ones. They were a lot better: they opened and closed much more smoothly and had a nicer finish. After a bit of fiddling I got the lid to fit (more or less) seamlessly onto the box. It was a lot of work, but I think it was well worth the extra effort.

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Lost your hearing and balance? Try woodworking! | Guitar building by hand

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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Lost your hearing and balance? October 4, 2013. This blog is about how woodworking has helped me through a personal experience). 8216; which can be accompanied by the loss of the balance organ in the affected ear, and so it was with me. Everything had just stopped working. In many cases (such as mine) the cause remains unknown. Some other projects: a wooden spoon, a magazine storage box and a lampshade. I’m still going...

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Assembling the ebony chopping board | Guitar building by hand

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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Assembling the ebony chopping board. February 26, 2015. I changed tactics and decided to use the machines in our shared workshop. I used a planer (on a very fine setting) and thicknesser to get the blanks flat and square. This went a lot quicker with better results. Since I hadn’t used the machines much until now, I also got to understand them a lot better. Test run before glue up. Glueing up the board. February 26, 2015.

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Keepsake box: dovetailing and glueing | Guitar building by hand

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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Keepsake box: dovetailing and glueing. November 27, 2014. Glueing up the box was tricky. I didn’t heed the six P’s. Sufficiently. I forgot to check my box was square before glueing! I only remembered this after the clamps were on for a couple of minutes. This meant doing a lot of fiddling while the glue was setting. Another lesson learned. Glueing up the box: you can never have too many clamps! November 27, 2014. Notify me o...

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Being one with the wood: bending the sides | Guitar building by hand

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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. Being one with the wood: bending the sides. May 27, 2014. Since I got my new workshop. After finishing the headstock, I continued on the sides. These were planed to thickness. A while ago but needed to be bent. I used a bending iron. I didn’t take any pictures whilst bending, but here’s a picture of the result:. Rosewood side bent and clamped to shape. For more information: if you haven’t bent wood before, and don&#821...

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Myrtle & Eunice: How to Make an Easter Chick

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Thursday, April 7, 2011. How to Make an Easter Chick. If you would like to make a Steiner-inspired Easter chick, then you have come to the right place. If you would like to make a Steiner-inspired Easter chick WITH legs – so, one that can semi-convincingly fly, forage for food, perch, bust-a-move, run and impersonate a dead fly, then you have also come to the right place. Here is a Michael Flatley Riverdance. And here is Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Or a Jane Fonda workout). For those who yesterday. I am ...

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Keepsake box | Guitar building by hand

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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. November 15, 2014. I wrote my last blog post in May: eek! I’ve been spending as much time as I can in the workshop and have completed a few projects since my last post: a keepsake box, an ebony chopping board and a corner cupboard. Plus some other things in between. I’m going to start with the keepsake box. I’ve prepared a few posts about it, which I’ll be publishing over the next week or so. November 15, 2014. Enter your co...

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Keepsake box: finished! | Guitar building by hand

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Guitar building by hand. Musings, tips and tricks from a budding guitar builder. January 20, 2015. With the hinges installed, all there was left to do was apply the finish, right? I find it depends on the mark and the wood, but haven’t found any rules of thumb as yet. A necessary evil I guess. Anyway, here are some pictures of the finished product:. Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). January 20, 2015. Create a fr...